[spectre] NEW JOURNAL: International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics

[Oliver Grau]

International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics

2nd issue of Volume 2

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Articles:

 

Public intellectuals and the media: integrating media theory into a
stalled debate

David W. Park

 

'John, a 20-year-old Boston native with a great sense of humour': on
the spectacularization of the 'self ' and the incorporation of identity
in the age of reality

television

Alison Hearn

 

Exploring participants' experiences of the Gay Games: intersections of
sport, gender and sexuality

David Rowe, Kevin Markwell, Deborah Stevenson

 

An American werewolf in Kabul: John Walker Lindh, the construction of
'race', and the return to whiteness

Sean Brayton

 

Pan-African politics in African American visual art: Where have we
been? Where are we going?

Bridget R. Cooks

 

Renegotiating media in the post-Soviet era: western journalistic
practices in the Armenian radio programme Aniv

Gayane Torosyan and Kenneth Starck

 

Commentaries:

 

Editorial introduction

Carolyn M. Byerly

 

Rethinking communication, media and activism

James Hamilton

 

TeleSUR (television of the South): Discarding contraflow for horizontal
communication

Lee Artz

 

Reviews:

 

Mekim Nius: South Pacific Media, Politics, and Education 

By David Robie

Reviewed by Asha Chand

 

What the Media are doing to our media

Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media 

By David Edwards and David Cromwell

Reviewed by Paul A. Taylor

 

What the Media are Doing to Our Politics 

By John Lloyd

Reviewed by Paul A. Taylor

 

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

 

The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (MCP) is
committed to analyzing the politics of communication(s) and cultural
processes. It addresses cultural politics in their local, international
and global dimensions, recognizing equally the importance of issues
defined by their specific cultural geography and those which traverse
cultures and nations. MCP promotes critical, in-depth, engaged research
on the intersections of sociology, politics, cultural studies and media
studies and invites sharp, contemporary, stimulating analyses of issues
of live concern for a broad range of cultures and nations and for the
international community.

 

For subscription and further information you can visit our website at
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/mcp/